more epic win

onceuponawin.com – We got this game for $1 from the flee market on a 5¼-inch floppy disk when we were kids. Then late at night or before they got home from work, we’d sneak into our parent’s office and play on the old 386. It was the first time most of us saw blood-splatter in a video game and it popularized first-person shooter style games. Remember all of the cool hidden rooms? How many of you had handmade maps on graphing paper so you could collect all of the secret compartment shwag?

A 15 year old swedish boy collapsed and went into convulsions on Sunday after playing World of Warcraft for 15+ hours straight.

“They played all day and all night. Maybe they got a few hours of sleep. They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers,” the boy’s father said.

At around 2pm on Sunday, the boy had what appeared to be an epileptic seizure. Doctors said the boy’s bodily systems had been thrown off by a combination of sleep deprivation, lack of food, and too long a stretch of concentrated game playing.

While the boy is expected to recover the parents have come up with a brilliant idea and limit the time his son is allowed to play. In an even more brilliant move, his parents plan to warn other parents on the dangers of extended game playing.

Just goes to show you, while the kid should have taken a break and refreshed, his parents are even more responsible and should be ashamed that this is what had to happen for them to be a more active part of their sons life.

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